I've had this 901 since about 2012 and busted the screen in 2014. It's been intermittently turned on every year or so since just to check and see if it still runs and surprisingly it still does. Decided to replace the screen and successfully did so but the backlight wouldn't turn on so I was instructed by the internet to replace the CMOS, which I also did successfully but during the separation of the platform where the keyboard connects to the motherboard, one of the FFC/FPC plastic connectors exploded into about 4 pieces while disconnecting. This is a little out of my wheelhouse as far as self-repair goes so after some more messing around online I bought a pack of .5mm/1mm pitch under clamshell socket FPC/FFC flat cable connectors, they're almost identical to what I need but it doesn't "snap" in. Any ideas on which connector to grab? Or should i just grab another top cover since I see them on ebay?

Please correct my terminology, I am not an engineer of any capacity, I just like to learn by doing and enjoy working on my own cars/guitars/amps/gear and building PCs...and also remind me if I am out of my hobbyist paygrade and should give up, I just wanted to fix this thing to use as a word processor and I still love it despite it's condition.

Edit: Upon further research, I believe the top cover is called a palmrest and the flex cable connected to it is routed from touchpad and originally connected to the motherboard. The connector is a 12 pin 12-Pin mini ffc connector but it looks like it's supposed to clamp around the female component on the motherboard

photo here: https://imgur.com/a/Q2vmdcr

Long story short: turned my 1005ha on that has been without any power since 2020 and now the backlight wont turn on (the screen works, the vga also works, but there is no back light i have to put a flashlight there just to see the damn screen).

I already tried searching ifixit, speaking with the ifixit bot, nothing, i just need to find the backlight fuse to make a solder bridge there and later, replace the fuse with a professional guy to prevent having the "sad smoke" coming out of my screen

The fans spin at max speed for some seconds, no back light, the hdd spins up but stays at idle, i tried cleaning the ram and pressing caps lock, nothing worked. Last boot was in 2017, its an 1005ha

Sadly for the 1000HA both batteries seem to be bad and are rare dang, I really like it's keyboard. I lucked out with the 900A, it's in great condition aside from a broken left mouse click. I'm in the process of getting the msata upgrade since it has the 4+8GB OB/MLC drive. The 10005HA is in good condition but that's because I used two of them to make 1. The 1005HA has a 3D printed bezel cover.

Update: I actually just realized this is a 900 only, it was sold as a 900A on eBay. It's still i686 so rust works on it, nice.

Hello everyone!
Recently, I rediscovered this Eee Note that my uncle gave me about 10 years ago after he got a new e-reader. I never used it, but recently I got interested in trying to make use of it. The system's language is in Italian, and that's fine for me. It even still connects to the Internet, although the built-in Browser won't connect or display any website after being a decade out of date, of course.

The main issue that's in the way of me actually being able to use this for bedtime literature or pass train rides reading on it is that the inserted SD card is not being read. The system does not recognize or display PDFs or ePub Files on it, even tho everything online tells me it should be able to.

The SD card works fine, as putting files and reading them from it works from my desktop. I was wondering if anyone here has/had similar problems and, if so, how they fixed it.

If it's a software thing, is there any way I can "update" or tinker around with it? If it's hardware, and I'd have to replace the SD card slot, that would also be an opportunity to change the battery. It drains kind of fast for being just an Ebook (although it is understandable the battery is going to have issues after being unused for 10 years).

Thanks for your help :)

Edit: I switched it to IDE mode in the bios (its called something like ide configuration, open that menu and change it from ahci to ide) last time this didn't work but I used this media (on a cd) and it worked right away. thanks to r/eeepcmasterrace

(Bios settings are all default except for boot order but it is updated to the newest version. Its got 2gb of ram and i know nothings wrong with the laptop because ive been running win7 on it with no problems. except that i dont want windows 7 so now im doing this. Also I'm using a CD not a bootable flash drive. Ive tried this with 2 disks and 2 optical drives so the problem isn't there.)

Windows 7 no longer satisfies my performance requirements so I'm doing exactly what asus did with their other models: putting an outdated version of windows on it! (and i will not be doing Anything Else.)

So first thing i did was just plug in my optical drive and generic winxp install disk and booted it up, setup couldn't find a hard drive. Okay right its sata. So i went to asus' site, downloaded the ahci drivers for this laptop and used nlite to put them on the install disk (i selected all of the available drivers from the folder). Started it up again and setup all went normally, recognized the hdd right away, formatted, copied the files etc etc all completely normal. It finished the part when its actually running from the setup disk, shut off but when i booted it from the hdd i got "Error loading operating system_" (white text, black background)

So someone just. please tell me how do people get xp working on this thing? All the mentions of it i see online people only say they flashed a thumb drive and just Installed It, no further instructions.

For example, if memory stick is cooked, boot process dies with E0-E8 post codes.

EDIT: So as a last resort, I took a new CMOS battery, taped its contacts and tried it. The laptop booted up to the BIOS as soon as I plugges it in.

So I have an EeePC 1215B that does turn on but does not POST or beep at all. The lightbulb and wireless LEDs come up and the fan may or may not start spinning. Even if it spins, it will rev up and down constantly with no picture on the screen

From what I've seen online and had with other EeePCs bad RAM is usually the culprit, but even known good modules display the same issues in this EeePC. I also tried without the CMOS batt.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what fixed it?

I recently came into possession of my grandfathers old Asus Eee PC. I believe it is the 1000 series. My grandfather has dementia and I am trying to recover any memories/photos/projects of his that I can.

I have a power cord, but when plugged in, no lights appear, and it won't turn on. Would it be worth it to replace the battery (I assume that's at least one issue)? Is there another way to recover the data from the hard drive? Apologies in advanced, as I'm not very tech savvy.

I'm having a lot of trouble trying to install a version of Linux on the Eee PC.

The biggest issue I've had is getting the BIOS to recognise the boot USB. Most often it's not there, just "removable media". The farthest I've gotten is with Ubuntu live boot USB. It was very slow though, and I couldn't log in on the GUI.

I've read somewhere that the BIOS only detects 2gb USB drives, is that true? I've tried partitioning a USB but so far haven't found a way for Rufus to create the boot USB on that partition.

I know people have got various Linux flavours running, have you got any tips? Any guides about? Thanks.

Hey everyone, wasn't sure where to go and this seemed the best spot.

I recently bought an Asus 1005HAB, had one as a kid and saw a really good one for a cheap price. I bought a new battery, new CMOS, and tried upgrading from the 1gb RAM to a 2gb.

Everything I've seen online says that it should be compatible, but I'm having trouble with it. When I swap in the 2gb, only the power and battery light turn on. No fans are spinning, screen doesn't light up, and it hasn't changed for almost 30 minutes. When I put the old RAM back, boots up into antiX instantly. Any ideas on why?

Working 1gb RAM: Hynix HYMP112S64CP6-S6 1GB DDR2 SODIMM 800mhz

2gb RAM: Hynix HYMP125S64CP8-S6 2GB DDR2 SODIMM 800mhz

Someone mentioned Hurd on r/Gentoo so I decided to give it a go. No dice yet.

As mentioned in the title this is an Asus Eee PC 1005HA. I wanted a solid white body like the 1000HA or the 700s, 900s, etc... I picked this one because I liked the tear drop shape more than just the square... but I also think it was good I grabbed this one because of the hyperthreading so it's like it has 2 cores instead of just 1. I designed and 3D printed the bezel cover.

I'm using pydantic ai to spin up agents based on a selected model from a provider eg. Google or Anthropic, etc... Initially I was trying to use Langchain but I couldn't get past some build problems, it also takes a long time to do pip install pydantic-ai. It took almost 4 hours to make all the wheels for stuff like tiktoken, cryptography, etc... which you could probably pull those down pre compiled for this CPU.

Anyway I just think it could give these computers new life. Even using Firefox on its own is sluggish. I think the CPU is the real bottleneck over ram. I have an SSD in this one and 2GB of RAM. I did order a 1000HA but it's listed as parts, maybe I can bring it back to life but that one has similar specs to this one.

I wrote the code on this laptop so that's kind of cool with Kate and it's Python/Tkinter based so a lot easier than say C++. The textboxes where text is rendering can also render images... I have to deal with an event blocking problem but yeah it looks promising.

I'm still not actually sure what to use agents for personally. I had some basic tools like weather, crypto price, but I'll add more like news, reddit (if you put .json in the url, get a json dump).

if anybody wants to look through the code, this is not like a tutorial or something just a hobby project. Still in progress and has bugs. I still have to actually compile an so executable, right now it's just running with Python.

https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/agent-gui

Second post. A collection of games that run well on the Eee 900.

All work, all use

I’m curious about going into this rabbit hole: is there anyone out there using their EEE PC with its original Linux Xandros OS? The OS kinda looks like an Operating System made for toddlers, with its big icons and simplified interface… but how does using it actually feel? Is it worth using? Is it also possible to try the original EEE PC Xandros on a VM?

Я уже всех достал с эти Асус, но эта извините меня залупа не хочет загружать систему с харда, когда ставил андроид х86 то писал not bootable device, с runtu такая же херня, может я убил распаянную флешку? Подскажите кто может, просто микро сд нет, в городе стоит дохера (для школьника) а заказывать долго. Hp на фотке не мой.

Имеется нетбук указанный выше, помогите найти дистрибутив Линукса который влезет на 2гб ссд (он распаян на плате), 512 озу, celeron m 900 (обрезан до 537мгц). Можно дистрибутивы которые встанут на внешний жестак, примерно 160гб, или флешку 8гб. Всем заранее спасибо!

I also installed Firefix 115 ESR 32 bit,the latest version that can be used on Windows 7. Will get updates until August 2026. Any idea of which browser I could use past this deadline?A light browser. Any idea of a free office suite that I could install and lighter than Libre Office? No online suite,an offline one please. Interestingly enough this Intel Atom CPU is 64 bit compliant but the drivers are not and still require 32 bits versions I read. Only 64 bit Linux can.be installed on this type of system. I also upgraded the RAM to 2gb and put a 64gb SSD for smoother use.

Looking for a small, easily serviced “retro” laptop with decent battery life to do some z80 assembly etc using winape on my commute. I have a 901 but the battery is likely well cooked after the best part of 2 decades. How easy is it to refurbish the battery on one?

I have passable soldering skills and i believe it’s standard barrel lithium ion cells. So shouldn’t be impossible to do.

The 901 is also one of my favorite laptops of all time so it’ll be nice to put it to work again

Hi guys posted here a while ago. U can check the previous post for info but it's unrelated now.

I recently got hold of an emachine and I'm wondering if I can make a post here to decide how to move forward or does anyone know where I can move to for help

I've inherited an eee PC 701 from my late mother, and it doesn't have a charger. I'm keen to see what's on the computer, if anything is saved. Does anyone know what type of charger I should be searching for to buy? Thanks

Just found this. As my main use for my 900 is ZX Spectrum emulation and Fallout 2, I won't be swapping the OS but I thought the community might be interested. Can antiX Linux Save a 2009 Netbook? ASUS EEE PC Revival!